Brazil and the Folly of Bad Loans
There’s an old saying that, if you lend a man some money, you make an enemy for yourself, not a friend. Instead of being glad to see you,…
There’s an old saying that, if you lend a man some money, you make an enemy for yourself, not a friend. Instead of being glad to see you,…
The definition of words makes a tremendous difference in how things are perceived, understood, and litigated. A rose by any other name may indeed smell as sweet, but…
It is amazing how changes of vast magnitude can take place in our American social society with hardly any reportage by the media or discussion by commentators or…
It would be nice if we lived in an age when reason and rational discourse guided political discourse. Since we seem to live in a time when demonstrations…
After the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7, 1941, savage criticism was leveled at those who had supported or voted for scrap iron shipments to Japan, which allegedly…
An “400-pound gorilla”™ (to use a current political cliché) is waiting in the shadows of the federal bureaucracy which could devour almost any political candidate in the 1984…
A new book called “American Couples” is a gold mine of research to support very traditional attitudes about sex, marriage, and family. The book was certainly not written…
While lecturing at a state university recently, I was escorted to and from the airport by a “counselor.” He was a university employee in his 30s whose job…
Parents are getting a new answer to the age-old question they ask their children, “What did you learn in school today?” Children in public and private elementary and…